Chapter 20. Dashboard Page
Abstract
You monitor system performance and runtime status in the Dashboard page. You can view recent log entries, active profiles, running containers, and system services. You can also create custom dashboards or import JSON dashboards.
Overview
You access the Dashboard page from the Fabric perspective. If the Fabric perspective is not available, make sure that your fabric is available or create a new fabric.
The Dashboard page contains the following sections:
- Navigation Bar
- Tabbed view of available dashboards and management options.
- Active Dashboard Pane
- Detailed view of the active dashboard.
Navigation Bar
The navigation bar shows a tabbed view of available dashboards. Custom dashboards that you create or import appear in the navigation bar. You can click the dashboard name to switch between dashboards.
You can click the Manage button to create or import custom dashboards. You can also select one or more dashboards and export the dashboards in JSON gist format.
Active Dashboard Pane
The active dashboard pane shows a detailed view of the selected dashboard. By default, this pane shows the Welcome dashboard. You can use the Add Current View to Dashboard button in various areas of the management console to customize the default dashboard or create a new dashboard.
You can click and drag each area in the dashboard to arrange the dashboard. You can also click the edit icon next to each area title to edit the area name.
The Welcome dashboard contains the following areas:
- Java Heap Memory
- Pie chart view of used and free Java heap memory.
- Java Non Heap Memory
- Pie chart view of used and free Java non-heap memory.
- Containers
- List of deployed containers and container management options.
- Active Profiles
- List of active profiles and profile management options. Active profiles are profiles that you assigned to containers.
- Loaded Classes
- Pie chart view of loaded classes and unloaded classes.
- Process CPU Load
- Graphical view of CPU usage.
- Threads
- Timeline view of running threads and status information, such as thread count and thread user time.
- Logs
- List of recent log entries. You can click the log type to view basic information about the log entry, or click the log entry link to open the full log entry syntax.
